Stupendously stupid or surreptitiously sinister
Into the fray: The unilateral two-state initiative endorsed by INSS this week is clearly not a ‘creative’ pro-peace measure but a demonstrably anti-settler one.
Hamas supporters rally in Hebron Photo: REUTERS
- The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow. They come to be accepted by degrees… by dint of constant pressure on one side and constant retreat on the other – until one day when they are suddenly declared to be the country’s official ideology.
– Ayn Rand, 1965
- O, who can hold a fire in his hand; By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite; By bare imagination of a feast? Or wallow naked in December snow; By thinking on fantastic summer’s heat?
– From William Shakespeare’s Richard II
I am appalled. Just how long will politically biased claptrap be allowed to masquerade as serious policy research?
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AGHAYEV: An unusual partnership between Muslims and Jews
Azerbaijan’s long history of tolerance is a model for modern times
With Syria mired in open revolt, several other Middle Eastern and North African countries still reeling from the Arab Spring, and Iran at loggerheads with the United States over its nuclear program, it was astounding to hear Israel’s president refer to a Muslim country this week not as a problem but as part of the solution. (Read more…)
British officials predicted war – and Arab defeat – in Palestine in 1948
Declassified UK reports document build-up of conflict, Jewish public’s endorsement of their leaders’ pro-terrorist stance and declare armies of Arab states were Palestinians’ ‘only hope’
- Richard Norton-Taylor
- The Guardian, Friday 26 April 2013
Barbed wire – to separate Arabs and Jews – covers Princess Mary Avenue in Jerusalem (now called Shlomtsiyon HaMalka) in May 1948. Photograph: AP
The British government knew from the moment it planned to withdraw its forces from Palestine more than 60 years ago that partition of the territory and the founding of the state of Israel would lead to war and defeat for the Arabs, secret documents released make clear.
The pre-state struggle remembered at the Underground Prisoners’ Museum
Prison garb was brown for regular prisoners, black if you’d tried to escape, and red for those condemned to hang…
This Jerusalem museum makes for a particularly appropriate visit around Independence Day
The entrance to the Underground Prisoners’ Museum (photo credit: Shmuel Bar-Am)
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- Masada, tragic fortress in the sky
- A German colony in Jerusalem
- Caves of Arbela: The ultimate hiding place
- Take a walk on the wild side at Huleh Agamon
- Biriya, forest everlasting
- Israeli history: it’s all about roots
- Gamla, the camel-backed mountain
- On the east-west shadowline: Jerusalem’s municipal complex
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The lesson of April 26, will power is key ingredient of success
By SARAH HONIG
One single episode of dogged determination can overturn all gloomy forecasts and literally change the course of history.
Photo by: Jerusalem Post archive
It didn’t seem that way, but this day – April 26 – exactly 65 years ago was pivotal in yet-to-be-born Israel’s history. Its little-celebrated and hardly remembered events remain central for debunking the lies about the circumstances of the Jewish state’s inception. Its trials and tribulations tell a unique story of individual courage and defiant daring quite literally against all odds.
Being Had For Dinner In Ottawa
Canadians are on their guard against the growing Islamist threat. After all, the last month alone brought the Boston Marathon bombing, and arrests in Canada of suspected Iranian-linked al-Qaeda bomb-plotters targeting Canada-US passenger train routes. Add to that, repeated stories of Islamist radicalism in Canadian neighborhoods and young Canadian Muslim terrorists abroad.
Against this backdrop, the last thing to be expected at this fraught time would be a public event in Canada’s capital showcasing a radical Islamist, boasting a master of ceremonies from the tax-funded Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, involving a respected mental health foundation, and including the wife of the highest office-holder in the land. Nonetheless, this is what is being planned for Ottawa, this weekend.
No good options for US in Syria
Arming rebels means aiding al-Qaeda-linked Jabhat al-Nusra; no-fly zone difficult to implement due to Assad’s air defenses
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House disclosure that the Syrian government has twice used chemical weapons still leaves the Obama administration stuck with a limited choice of military options to help the rebels oust President Bashar Assad.
Arming the rebels runs smack into the reality that a military group fighting alongside them has pledged allegiance to al-Qaeda. Establishing a no-fly zone poses a significant challenge as Syria possesses an air defense system far more robust than what the US and its allies overwhelmed in Libya two years ago.
President Barack Obama had declared that the Assad regime’s use of chemical weapons in the two-year civil war would be “game changer” that would cross a “red line” for a major military response, but the White House made clear Thursday that even a quick strike wasn’t imminent. (Read more…)
Plaut’s Points
By Stephen Plaut
1. For the past few weeks, Israel’s military establishment and some its politicians have been telling the world that Bashar Assad and his junta have already used poison gas against civilians in Syria. For example, Yuval Steinetz issued such a report a month ago (http://www.huffingtonpost. com/2013/03/20/chemical- weapons-used-in-syria-israel_ n_2915447.html ). This matters because of, among other reasons, the fact that the Obama team has been saying that any use of poison gas was the ultimate “red line” for US and for allied intervention in Syria.
Column One: Time to confront Obama
By CAROLINE B. GLICK
To a degree, all of Netanyahu’s seemingly unjustifiable actions can be justified when weighed against the need to avoid a confrontation with America.
The time has come for Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to confront US President Barack Obama.
A short summary of events from the past three days: On Tuesday morning, the head of the IDF’s Military Intelligence Analysis Division Brig. Gen. Itay Brun revealed that the Syrian government has already used “lethal chemical weapons,” against Syrian civilians and opposition forces. Brun described footage of people visibly suffering the impact of chemical agents, apparently sarin gas.
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HAS AMERICA LOST HER SOUL?
Pamela Geller notes absence of outrage about motives of Boston jihadists
In light of the jihad bombings in Boston, and the media whitewash about their real cause that has followed this week, the question is: Has America lost her soul?
The country that was established on the premise of individual rights and freedoms has, in recent years, abandoned the morality that bound us together as a nation. We have lost our reverence for life and liberty. Our armed forces best illustrate this moral code with their honor code of no man left behind. We go to extraordinary lengths to bring back our fallen, never leaving a man (or woman) on the battlefield – so enshrined in our DNA is the exaltation of humanity.
And yet we see a disturbing trend: America did not rally, protest or demand answers when the Obama administration classified the Fort Hood jihad massacre not as terrorism, but as “workplace violence.” No one – not any politician or mainstream media figure of significance – called Obama on his cover-up of the jihad motive in the slaughter of our unarmed soldiers in Texas. (Read more…)
Is Obama trying to spin the Boston bombing to whitewash the Islamist threat?
By Andrew L. Jaffee, netwmd.com
President Obama and his lackeys in government still insist that the Fort Hood massacre was a case of “‘workplace violence,’ despite mountains of evidence clearly proves the Fort Hood shooting was an act of terror.” Is the Obama administration now taking the same course with the Boston bombers, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and Tamerlan Tsarnaev? How did our national security apparatus allow these brothers to slip under the radar? Two men murdered three people and injured over 175 at an international event in a great American city, and “avoid capture for three days.” The daily activities of 1 million people were paralyzed in the midst of hundreds of law enforcement personnel.
Ample evidence already exists supporting the theory that the Tsarnaev brothers’ atrocity was motivated by Islamist ideology. Even CNN admitted:
Ted Belman
Jerusalem, Israel
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